Fish-hook.



AB. FORD,

FISH HOOK.

. APPUcATmN FILED SEPT. 30. 1915.

Patented Nov. 5, 1918.

UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIcE.

Speoication of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. V5, 1918.

Application led September 30, 1915. Serial No. 53,282.

To all whom z't may concern.'

Be it known that I, BRUCE FORD of the United States, residing at t ecity of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inFish-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

The principal object of the invention is to prevent the escape of fishfrom the hook upon which they are caught, and the invention, stated ingeneral terms, consists in a novel arrangement of the barb in respect tothe plane of the hook, and in a new combination of the parts of a duplexhook by which the hook operates in a new and im- 'a 'citizen proved wayand crowds and spring presses the meat of a hooked fish upon the barbsof the hook whereby the opposed and prevented.

The invention further provements to be ally claimed. In the drawings Ficomprises the impresently described and re 1, is a front, and

Fig. 2, a perspective v1ew of a hook embodylng features of theinvention, and

Figs. 3 and 4, are similar views of a hook embodyin a modification ofthe invention.

The bals 1, Figs. 1 and 2, and l, Figs. 3 and 4, are disposed insubstantially the same plane and this plane is at plane of the hook andis substantially parallel with, but is spaced from, the plane of theshank 2, by the distance of the span of the bend 3. The points 4, of thehook lie in the same plane as the barbs but are preferably inclined awayfrom the respective barbs. In Figs. divergent and the barbs l, pointtoward each other, whereas in Figs. 3 and 4, the points 4, areconvergent .and the bar point away from each other. The shank may beconstructed as a spring, for example, by doubling it on itself andspacing its arms apart, thus assisting the barbs to the position shownagainst any pressure that may tend to separate them in Fig. 1, or tobring them together in Fig.' 3. The inclination of the points away fromtheir respective barbs operates upon the meat of sh, caught upon thehook, to bring about escape of the sh is right angles to the 1 and 2,the points 4, aretendency to return the this spring action and so themeat is crowded and spring pressed by the barbs and escape ofthesh-isthereby prevented. In the construction of Figs. 1 and 2, thediverging points tend to crowd the meat between them, and the spring tospring press the crowded meat. In the construction shown in Figs. 3 and4, the converging points tend to crowd the meat away from the hook andthe spring shank spring presses the barbs into the crowded meat.

The fact that each barb'is at right angles to the plane of the hook, ormore accurately to the plane ofthe bend of the hook, is advantageous,because if the meat of the iishs side of the bend of the a knife bladetoward tates the mouth or gul1et, the hook serves .to `ide the barb andso fdi process of getting the hook out of the meat.

The plane of the shank is in the plane in which the shank substantiallylies, for example, in Figs. 1 and 3, it is the plane of the paper, andin Figs. 2 and 4, it is aplane oblique to the plane of the paper andtoward the left. The plane of the hook is the plane in which the hookbills lie that is in Figs. 1 and 3, a plane parallel tothe plane of thepaper but spaced infront of the face'of the paper and 1n Figs. 2 and 4,a plane passing through the bills 'of the hooks and oblique to the planeof the paper and toward the right. The plane of the barbs in partcoincides with the pla-ne of the hook. What I claim is:

1. A duplex fish hook having a spring shank and having its barbsdisposed in a plane substantially parallel with and spaced from theplane vof lts shank and having its oints inclined away from their barbswherey the meat of a sh is crowded and spring pressed by the barbs inrespect to each other.

2. A -duplex fish hook having its barbs pointed toward each other anddisposed in a single plane spaced from the plane of its shank and havingdivergent points disposed in the first mentioned plane, whereby the meatof a fish is crowded and spring pressed between the barbs, substantiallyas described.

3. A duplex fish hook having its barbs disposed in substantially oneplane spaced the barb is buried in shank causes the barbs from the.plane of its shank and having its same snge piane :Jr-nd ein righi;angles iso *abe points inclined away from their barbs, piane of tilehook, substantially as described. whereby the meat of a, sh is crowdedand In testimony whereof l have hereunto 10 spring pressed by the barbsin respect to .signed my name.

BRUCE FORD.

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4. A. duplex sh 'hook having its barbs Witness:

opposingly arranged in substantially the CLH'EORD K. CAssEL.

